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Pen Atlas: Best Books
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
I am a very proud member of English PEN; I am also a huge supporter of PEN Atlas. So I’d like to devote my final Blog before Christmas and New Year – a time when we reflect on what’s good and bad ...
Recommended Books from 2014/ Meine Bücher 2014
Posted by Rainer Moritz | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
If you read a lot – you forget a lot. And so, with Christmas approaching, if you think about the books you can remember from the past year, which plots you haven’t immediately forgotten, those that ...
My Best E-Books
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
It’s that ‘Best Books Of The Year’ time again. Everyone who is Anyone in the Literary World is revealing their favorite reads of 2014. These lists are both exciting and depressing: all those books ...
The Angelus Award goes to Slovak writer Pavol Rankov
Posted by Jaroslav Balvin | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
Martin Šmaus and Jáchym Topol took part in a discussion with other finalists of the Polish award.
The Inferno: A discussion
Posted by Brittani Sonnenberg | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
This morning (October 25th, Europan Literature Days 2014) began with the tricky topic of War in World Literature. Sigrid Löffler delivered a lecture lambasting German-speaking authors for sticking to ...
ELit 2014 – seized by literature
Posted by Brittani Sonnenberg | Permalink | filed under: 2014, History
The reason we create and consume literature is to feel suddenly seized by story. It’s never a given. But during the evening’s reading and discussion on 24th of October 2014 (with Marica Bodrožić and ...
War On The Danube
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
For a few weeks in the year Spitz an der Donau is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The autumnal vines turn the hills into carpets of green and yellow; the October sun warms the Wachauer ...
Best European Fiction
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2014
‘Best European Fiction’, or ‘BEF’, is both the title of an inspirational annual anthology of European short fiction, and an aspiration – for more of it!
Was brauchen innovative Verleger?
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: 2014, Innovations in the Digital Field
Am 8. Oktober 2014 veranstaltete die Frankfurter Buchmesse einen EU stakeholder workshop zum Thema “What do publishers need in order to innovative?” Anwesend waren Beamte der Europäischen Kommission, ...